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Decoding gender : law and practice in contemporary Mexico

Title
Decoding gender : law and practice in contemporary Mexico / edited by Helga Baitenmann, Victoria Chenaut, Ann Varley.
Publication
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Baitenmann, Helga.
  • Chenaut, Victoria.
  • Varley, Ann, 1958-
Description
xvi, 275 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Mexico
  • Sex and law > Mexico
  • Indians of Mexico > Legal status, laws, etc. > Mexico
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-263) and index.
Contents
Law and gender in Mexico : defining the field / Helga Baitenmann, Victoria Chenaut, and Ann Varley -- Love, sex, and gossip in legal cases from Namiquipa, Chihuahua / Ana M. Alonso -- Sins, abnormality, and rights : gender and sexuality in Mexican penal codes / Ivonne Szasz -- The realm outside the law : transvestite sex work in Xalapa, Veracruz / Rosío Córdova Plaza -- Women's land rights and indigenous autonomy in Chiapas : interlegality and the gendered dynamics of national and alternative popular legal systems / Lynn Stephen -- Indigenous women, law, and custom : gender ideologies in the practice of justice / María Teresa Sierra -- Indigenous women and the law : prison as a gendered experience / Victoria Chenaut -- Domesticating the law / Ann Varley -- Conflictive marriage and separation in a rural municipality in central Mexico, 1970-2000 / Soledad González Montes -- The archaeology of gender in the new agrarian court rulings / Helga Baitenmann -- Law and the politics of abortion / Adriana Ortiz-Ortega -- Married women's property rights in Mexico : a comparative Latin American perspective and research agenda / Carmen Diana Deere -- Thinking about gender and law in Mexico / Jane F. Collier.
ISBN
  • 9780813540504 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 081354050X (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780813540511 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0813540518 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2006031255
OCLC
  • ocm71552327
  • SCSB-8883210
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library